Liquid-dispensing apparatus.



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G. A. GILDEMEYER. LIQUID DISPENSING APPARATUS.

1 APPLICATION FILED MAY 29, 1903. H0 MODEL. 3 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

PATENTED APR. 19, 1904.

0. A. GILDEMEYER.

LIQUID DISPENSING APPARATUS. N0 MODEL. APPIJIOATION FILED MAY 29, 1903. v3 sHgTs sHnn-T'3' Patented April 19, 1904.

UNITED STAT S PATENT ()FFICE.

CHARLES A. GILDEMEYER, OF PHILADELPHIAPENNSYLVANIA.

LIQUID-DISPENSING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 7 57,611, dated April 19, 1904.

Application filed May 29, 1903- tents of the same, and in a manner that will insure absolute cleanliness.

Myinvention is fully shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a sectional elevation of an apparatus embodying my invention, taken on the line a a, Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation at right angles to Fig. 1, taken on the line b b of the same. Fig. 3 is view in elevation of the lower part of the structure looking in the direction of the arrow as, Fig. 1, and Fig. 4 is a sectional view illustrating a detail of my invention.

In addition to the means for elevating the package and the means for facilitating the discharge of the contents of the same I provide a cooling-chamber, which will keep the contents of the several packages in a cool condition during the time such packages are being emptied.

In Figs. land 2, 1 represents the usual bar-top or counter, and2 the casing of a chamber 3, arranged below the same. Opening into this chamber from the ,under side is a series of shafts or tubes 4, and at the bottom of each .of said shafts is an elevatingplatform 5, connected by means of chains 6 to suitable means for raising the same. At the top of the chamber 3', where the upper ends of the shafts 4: terminate, a receptacle 7 is provided, arranged to receive ice, and the walls of the shafts or tubes are provided with retaining-latches 8, forming supports for the packages 9 of the liquid to be dispensed.

' In the lower part of the structure platforms Serial No. 159,316. (No model.)

10 are arranged, having suitable guideways 11, and onto these platforms the packages of and 18, the latter being carried by sleeves 19, mounted on the shaft 20, which is driven by suitable means, such movement being transmitted to the chains 15 for the purpose of moving the packages.

Within the ice-receptacle, at the top of the casing 2, an air-tube 21 is provided, having suitably-valved connections 22, each of which is provided with a section of rubber tubing 23 for connection with the tapping devices for the packages containing the liquid. These tapping devices form the subject of an application for patent filed May 22, 1903, Serial No. 158,322, and hence no specific description of the same is needed herein. Directly opposite these air connections are the connections for the spigots 25, and sections of rubber hose 26 are provided for connection between said spigots and the liquid-discharge outlets of the tapping devices.

A drip-pan 27 is provided beneath the spi ots 25, having an outlet 28, and the ice-receptacle is also provided with a drip-pipe 29, joining in a common outlet at the point 30. As soon as a package has been emptied the tapping device is removed, and a fresh package may be brought into position for use, the

raising of the latter pushing out the empty packages, and it can be readily removed by the bar attendant.

The transporting and lifting mechanism is as follows: Mounted within the casing 2 is a tubular shaft 35, which carries a series of drums 36, 37, and 38 and a series of sprocketwheels 39,40, and 41, and special means are provided for throwing said drums and sprocketwheels into and out of operative engagement with the tubular shaft. The horizontal conveyer chains 15, provided for moving the packages into position to be engaged by the elevator-platforms, are operated bymeans of the sprocket-chains 4:2, 43, and 44, passing 1 These chains are passed over sprocket-wheels 17- around the sprocket-wheels 39, 40, and 41 on the tubular shaft and around sprocketwheels 45, 46, and 47, carried by the sleeves 19 at the.

opposite end fromthe sprocket-wheels 18,such sleeves being mounted on the shaft 20. The tubular shaft 35 has a gear-wheel 50,.which is driven by means of a gear-wheel 51, mount' carried by the same is shown, andin the position indicated in the drawings one of the clutch membersis in the position to operatively connect its drum with the shaft, while the other clutch members are in the free or inoperative position. These clutch members comprise sliding bars 55, 56, and 57, arranged within the hollow shaft 35, each bar being provided with alateral projection 58. The drums and sprocket-wheels are recessed at the points 59 and 60, and mounted within said recesses are projections and 66 to be engaged by the lateral projections 58. The lateral projections of the bars 55, 56, and 57 extend through the shaft 35, the latter being cutaway at 67 for this purpose, and each of these bars is movable into three different positions, one of such positions serving to connect the shaft 35 with the drums, another serving to connect the shaft with the sprocket-wheels, while the third position, midway of the other two, removes said shaft from connection with either the sprocket-wheels or drums. These bars are provided with handles 68, so that they may be readily moved, and in order that the position of the bars with relation to the hollow shaft and the drums or sprocket-wheels, which are to be placed in operative relation thereto, may be accurately determined each bar is provided with marks indicated at D, I, and S. When a rod is at the D mark, the sprocketwheel which it controls is in operative engagement with the hollow shaft. When the rod is at the Imark, it is in the idle or inactive position, and when it is at the S mark the shaft is in engagement with the drum. As all of these rods rotate with the shaft, it is necessary, of course, to provide for the idle position. As illustrated in Fig. 1, the shaft is in engagement with the drum 37 through the coaction of the projection 65 of the same and the projection 58 of the bar 56, and when so connected the shaft is in position for raising one of the packages in the central tube or shaft. In accomplishing this it is only necessary to turn said shaft by the hand-wheel 53- and the package will be raised into position. The elevator which has raised such package will descend as soon as the rod which has connected the drum to the shaft is moved to the idle position. Before the package can be raised, however, it must be brought to the position directly beneath one of the tubes or shafts 4:. To do this, the bar 56, for instance, will be moved so that its projection will engage the projection 66. of the sprocket-wheel 10, and the hand-wheel 53 will then be turned.

.This will cause the shaft 35 to turn, and with it the sprocket-wheel 10, and this movement being transmitted to the horizontal conveyerchain 15 through the medium of the chain 43 and sprocket-wheels 4:6 and 18 such horizontal chain will be moved,and the projection 16,carried by the same, will engage and move one of the packages 11 into position beneath the central tube or shaft 4:. As soon as this is done the package may be elevated in the manner just described, and when it reaches the top of the shaft it will be retained by the springsupporting member 8, which member is automatically pressed out of the way by the passage of the receptacle. The elevator members 5 are provided with a rear projection 71, adapted to suitable grooves 7 2 in the rear of the structure. As soon as the package has reached this point it is only necessaryto shift the position of the clutch-rod, when the .elevator will descend by its own weight, ready to receive another package brought into proper position. This action may be carried out for any of the several shafts or tubes in precisely the same manner as the clutcherod 56 with regard to their respective drums and sprocketwheels.

It will readily be seen that all manual labor usually employed for bringing the packages into operative relation with the tube or spigot is done away with, and simple and convenient means are provided for the air-inlet and liquiddischarge connections.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. The combination in a liquid-dispensing apparatus of an elevator for the package of liquid, a shaft or tube in which said elevator is arranged and through which a package may be raised, a cooling-chamber at the top of said shaft or tube and means for operating the elevator.

2. The combination in a liquid-dispensing apparatus, of an elevator for the package of liquid, a shaft or tube in which said elevator is arranged and through which a package may be raised, a cooling-chamber at the top of said shaft or tube and means for supporting the package in the raised position.

3. The combination in a liquid-dispensing apparatus, of an elevator for the package of liquid, a shaft or tube in which said elevator is arranged and through which a package may be raised, a cooling-chamber at the top of the tube, and means for supporting said package at thetop of the tube within the zone of the cooling-chamber.

4. The combination in a liquid-dispensing IIS apparatus, of an elevator for the packages of liquid, a shaft or tube in which said elevator is arranged and through which a package may be raised, a cooling-chamber at the top of said shaft or tube, means for bringing said packages into position beneath the tube and means for operating the elevator, such means being operable from a single point.

5. The combination in a liquid-dispensing apparatus, of an'elevator for the packages of liquid, a shaft or tube in which said elevator is arranged and through which a package may be raised, a horizontal conveyer for said pack- 7. The combination in a liquid-dispensing.

apparatus, of a shaft or tube for the package containing the liquid, means for raising the said package within the shaft or tube, a cooling-chamber at the top of the tube, means for supporting said package within the tube, and air-inlet and liquid-discharge connections mounted Within said cooling chamber and -adapted to be connected to the package raised into the same.

8. The combination in a liquid-dispensing apparatus, of the shaft or tube, means for raising a liquid package within the same, a support for the package, a tapping device carried by said package, an outlet-pipe for the liquid, an air-inlet pipe, and means for connecting said pipes with the packages.

9. The combination in a liquid-dispensing apparatus, of the shaft or tube, a coolingchamber surrounding the upper part of said shaft or tube, means for raising a package of liquid into the space surrounded by the cooling-chamber, a support for said packag and means for connecting said package with the air-inlet and discharge pipes.

10. The combination in a liquid-dispensing apparatus, of the horizontal oonveyer, a shaft or tube, a vertically-moving elevator adapted to engage a package which has been brought into position by the horizontal conveyer, a shaft having coacting mechanism for operating the horizontal conveyer and the elevator,

and means for placing said shaft alternately in operative relation with said horizontal con veyer and the elevator. v

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. 1

cells. A. GILDEMEYER.

Witnesses:

JOHN H. PHILIPS, EDWARD E. MORGAN. 

